“Start with genuine love within yourself” is like telling an asthmatic they need to “just breathe normally.”

The Acura ILX is not a bad car. The problem is that it is really just a rebadged Honda Civic. The Acura costs a lot more than the Civic, so when people pay more they expect more.

Sounds like the CEO interviewing you is doing so for a special circumstance and would not do that for all of the new hires. And when I say “general position” I’m referring to non-management, non-executive positions that do not have a relevant need to directly interact with a CEO or would be reporting to someone much…

Human variation is human variation. That’s not my issue. My issue is the belief that your body shape (i.e. rectangular versus trapezoidal) somehow determines how quickly you put on or lose weight. Your bone structure is not your metabolic rate.

Honestly somatotypes are just made up categories by a psychologist in the 40s who really had no understanding of metabolism. As a medical student, we were never taught about them and their names make literally no biological sense at all. Physical trainers need to stop buying into this bullshit because a person’s…

Somatotype’s are junk science.

You should ALWAYS prepare for a job interview. The higher level the job, the more research needs to be done. I interviewed with Amazon a while back for an analyst role. The hiring manager asked me straight up, “what do you think about our annual financials” and followed it up with “did you see anything strange or…

Better than asking about turnover, I would suggest asking to sit with a team member or someone else within the company. Ask for 20 minutes to grab coffee and chat. If they say yes, feel free to be candid. Ask about team/work environment rumors, work/life balance, online reviews, etc. If they say no, well, then, that…

Or, if you just need email and can live without Drive and Calendar, WMail does a beautiful job free for unlimited accounts. WMail also supports Google Inbox, which this seems not to, and doesn’t add a signature advertising itself to your emails, which this does unless you pay up.

don’t you get that in England we’ve been honing the fine art of being politely and artfully frosty for thousands of years? don’t take this away from us too!

Those I don’t mind so much. What does bug me is when it’s not clear what part of the sentence is the app/service name since with how they’re named and the sentence is worded makes it all blend in. I wish they could do something in the heading that separates the name of the product from the rest of the title. It…

I’m moving very soon to the tropics in a very high humidity area. After doing two six-month stints in such a climate, I’d love to find a diagram like this for that environment. I got to the point of chucking absolutely everything in the fridge because even my spices were going mouldy in record time.

Before you buy the car, rent the car! Two days will tell you if it’s right for you or not and $100 is a lot less to pay than 24 - 36 months of a $300 per month lease!

Once when I asked about work/life balance, the interviewer said, “We are very committed to work/life balance. On paper.”

That may work for a random company small enough that the CEO would be interviewing for general positions. However, that doesnt work well for large companies where basic research gives too broad a lens that may not be highly relevant to the group you would be working with.

No! Switch banks!

Excellent post. Probably just one thing to add to this... YOUR BUFFER SHOULD NOT BE YOUR EMERGENCY FUND. Your emergency fund should be part of your savings or a different account altogether that you can’t dip into unless you need it.

It’s not the Desk/Go Out answer that you’re looking for it’s Why they pick one or the other. Your reasons for eating at your desk are great. Not good responses would be nervous laughter, telling you that only C-Level executives have enough time to do that, mentioning how great the vending machines are, or even…

@Ignition: This is my number 1 gripe with people who have pets! I hate going round to someones house and they're cooking, and the cat just wanders in, sits on the table i'm about to eat off, and the host feeds it cuttings and doesn't even wash their hands after it's had a good lick around.

Good tips! I need to purge my junk drawers, definitely. Any good advice on storing plastic containers (the tupperware type)? There are never enough lids to match containers. Right now I have two tangerine crates stacked on top of the other, the bottom has the lids, the top the pots, but it's far from ideal.